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derived from the snow being harder at night for 

 travelling. 



" When we rose in the evening, we com- 

 menced our day by prayers, after which we took 

 off our sleeping dresses, and put on those for 

 travelling, the former being made of camblet, 

 lined with racoon skin, and the latter of strong 

 blue box cloth. We made a point of always 

 putting on the same stockings and boots for 

 travelling in, whether they had dried during the 

 day or not, and I believe it was only in five or six 

 instances that they were not either still wet or 

 hard frozen. 



" Being rigged for travelling, we breakfasted 

 upon warm cocoa and biscuit, and after stowing 

 the things in the boats and on sledges, so as 

 to secure them as much as possible from wet, 

 we set off on our day's journey, and usually 

 travelled from five to five and a half hours, then 

 stopped an hour to dine, and again travelled 

 four, five, or even six hours, according to cir- 

 cumstances. After this we halted for the night, 

 as we called it, selecting the largest surface of 

 ice we happened to be near. . . . The boats were 

 placed close along-side each other, with their 

 sterns to the wind, the snow or wet cleared 

 out of them, and the sails, supported by bamboo 

 masts, and three paddles, placed over them as 



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